Description
How deeply was the Czech avant-garde concerned with the social situation in interwar Czechoslovakia? Did the global economic crisis introduce new themes into literature and visual art? And how did playwrights and filmmakers perceive the threat to European democracy at the end of the 1930s? Literary, art, theatre, film and music historians seek answers to these and other questions in the second volume of the collective monograph Gesture and Reality, titled People on an Ice Floe after a play by Vilém Werner. In four dozen studies devoted to well-known and forgotten works and cultural events, researchers from across the humanities reveal new connections and explore the relationships between art and politics.
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Language: Czech
Publication date: June 17, 2026
Manufacturer: Středisko spol. činností AV ČR, v. v. i.
Genres: Art and architecture, Books, Specialized and technical literature
Type: Hardcover books
ISBN/EAN: 9788020036889